...in few words, constitutes ^ called wit, and is a very copious soi Such is that comparison in Hudibr the morning to a boiled lobster : " Like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tu At first there seems to be no resen when we recollect that the lobster' ing, changed from dark to...

...away, leaving Monk with Anthony. " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap ; And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." The morning was just breaking, as our friend Sam Butler says, and sounds of footsteps crossing the...

...colour in a boiled lobster. " The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn: When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching Twixl sleeping kept all night and waking, Began to rub his...

...well-known passage in Hudibras; — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety : it sees all things in one, it piil »/•//'...

...change of night intoday, viz. : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...change of night into day, viz.: " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject— " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...daybreak, hastening to change his uniform for the more sober dress of his clerical profession, "' So, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.'" It certainly needed all the importance of the defensive service in which he was engaged, to blend without...

...change of night into day, viz. : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...

...daybreak, hastening to change his uniform for the more sober dress of his clerical profession, — " ' So, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.' " It certainly needed all the importance of the defensive service in which he was engaged, to blend...

...inimitable. Fur example, of Morning — The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, tlon of the Puke of Buckingham — the Huckfngbum, H muât be re Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some write, by ladies' eyes , The moon pull'd...